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@TinaRiversRyan
Nov 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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My mom mailed me my old CD collection and @AnnieLowrey I think we should guess what is on this Image
Dammit, Tina. (This is copyright 1992. Damn.) Image
Odds are I still listen to every one of these tracks Image
Custom album art by my graffiti artist high school sweetheart Image
do not go listen to this if you know me in any professional capacity but otherwise—track 3 Image
Amazing the amount of casual misogyny and misogynoir I used to bump (even though I totally knew it was ridiculous) because it had sick beats 🤷‍♀️ Definitely did not have access back then to theoretical framework of intersectionality…
Do kids still go to fabric?? 😥 Image
I was not what you would call a “preppy” teen ImageImage
Born in the land of sun and sea and all I wanted was to be in some grimy basement in wet and cold Bristol or Berlin Image
I miss this culture of thoughtfully ripping and burning and sharing and reimagining (even as I am cognizant of what it did to music and musicians). Piracy but make it intimate and caring. Sigh. (Insert NFT commentary here.) ImageImage
(@emenel this one’s for you)

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Mar 10, 2023
Kinda reminds me of when I randomly discovered (via searching OpenSea) that someone was listing artworks from the Rijksmuseum and AIC etc and insinuating it was authorized as a fundraiser and when I contacted the folks at those museums they were like “wut”
Anyway the NFT space (like certain corners of the art world, sure) continues to be plagued by grifters and hustlers and no amount of talk about transparency or decentralization should substitute for working with trusted individuals and orgs
Once again I will admit we’re not all angels!, but at least museum curators typically have a code of conduct that is part of our employment contract and if we do shady shit like try to pump our own bags via museum work we literally can get fired…
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Jun 30, 2022
Dear internet,

I know some of you out there really care about museums. If you follow me, you probably know I'm a curator at the @AlbrightKnox, the 6th oldest US art museum (founded 1862) and the oldest US museum devoted to modern and contemporary art.
You probably also have a sense of the scope of our commitment to artists working with experimental technologies. We were the first US museum to exhibit photography as a fine art--back in 1910. (That was also the year we became the first US museum to have a female Director!)
In the 1970s, we installed avant-garde film and video in our white-walled gallery spaces (not in our auditorium!)--helping pave the way for film and video as fine art.
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Jun 14, 2022
Earlier in the spring, I tracked down an edition of an image that was produced by Boeing and included in the print portfolio accompanying the @ICALondon’s 1968 show “Cybernetic Serendipity,” curated by Jasia Reichardt (the first of many legendary female curators of media art) ImageImage
As @jacobgaboury explains in “Image Objects”—an instant classic in the field of media archaeology and the history of computation—the origin of this print is a model of the human body designed by William Fetter for Boeing in 1964 (whose boss coined the term “computer graphics”). ImageImage
This figure is in fact the first three-dimensional model of a human body designed with a computer, and is known as “Boeing Man,” although Fetter himself called it “First Man,” as if suggesting the “dawn of a new species form” (in Jacob’s words).
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Dec 22, 2021
"So Hello Bitcoin was a gesture against automated trust and immutability, the two values from blockchain culture that I find more anti-social and that back then, I thought were creating a bad future for material and social exchanges."
the-crypto-syllabus.com/geraldine-juar…
"It was impossible to be thrilled or excited about a technology so compatible with the libertarian and right-wing turn that started to be more apparent in internet culture around that time. How can you be excited about a technology promoted by right-wing populists...?"
"...the libertarian Trojan horse pushed the transition to a more liberal version of internet politics that was also in the interests of financial capital. Then with crypto and the rest they intended to financialise...the idea of decentralization."
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Dec 22, 2021
Very grateful to the Cyborg Jillian Weise for giving me the framework to understand myself as a cyborg and a certain strain of transhumanist artists as tryborgs
“I know you think cyborgs are always imminent. But not here yet. However, I am a cyborg. And cyborgs are first and foremost disabled people. We’re the ones who have a fundamental interface with tech. We’re the ones who depend on tech to actually live. And we’re not new.” BOOM
“Tryborgs are nondisabled people with a lot of hubris. Tryborgs are granted the expertise on cyborgs, almost pro forma, for no apparent reason. Tryborgs lack experiential knowledge... Their bodies do not whir. They were not born into machines.”
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Nov 24, 2021
PSA for #generativeart people—you should check out the catalog for the Francois Morellet retrospective at @DiaArtFndn. it’s full of useful ideas and gems like this work, “Néons ave programmation aléatoire-poétique-géométrique
(Neons with Random-Poetic-Geometric Program),” 1967
Also fyi @AlbrightKnox organized a show called Francois Morellet: Systems in 1984
Morellet in 1991: “My position, for forty years, has been to oppose myself to the conventional practice of
painters and sculptors whose every work is composed by thousands of subjective decisions and manual imprecisions.”
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